Unplanned admission to intensive care after emergency hospitalisation: Risk factors and development of a nomogram for individualising risk

Resuscitation

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 224-230

  Frost, Steven A ^a,b   Alexandrou, Evan ^a,b,c   Bogdanovski, Tony ^a,b   Salamonson, Yenna ^b   Parr, Michael J ^a,d   Hillman, Ken M ^a,d  

^a LIVERPOOL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Emergency department; Intensive care; Nomogram; Outcome prediction; Unplanned ICU admission

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CODING; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AUSTRALIA; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOMOGRAMS; PATIENT ADMISSION; PNEUMONIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; SEX FACTORS; TRIAGE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149352294     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2008.10.030     Document Type: Article

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